Payments startup Circle is getting political. The stablecoin issuer is working with the U.S. government to bypass Nicolás Maduro and support the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela led by Juan…

Payments startup Circle is getting political. The stablecoin issuer is working with the U.S. government to bypass Nicolás Maduro and support the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela led by Juan…
Payments company Square’s announcement that it would put some $50 million, or 1% of its assets, into bitcoin has touched off speculation that more corporations might do the same. Jack…
A Ripple executive has unveiled a payments platform based on XRP that will work in popular web browsers. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet…
How batching payments has benefited our customers, internal operations, and the overall Bitcoin network By Brock Miller Earlier this year, Coinbase rolled out Bitcoin transaction batching. Since launching, we have batched…
The Federal Reserve is rushing ahead with its payments platform, Russia’s largest bank is going in on blockchain and so is Goldman Sachs. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup…
The social payments app Bottlepay (née Bottle Pay) aims to relaunch in the next few weeks, after shuttering due to regulations in December 2019. After restructuring the bitcoin wallet…
Crypto wallet and bitcoin custodian, Xapo is discontinuing support for credit card payments for digital asset purchases. In an emailed announcement on Friday, Xapo said its users would not…
By Sid Coelho-Prabhu Cryptocurrency’s promise is to make money and payments universally accessible– to anyone, no matter where they are in the world. The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) or Open Finance…
Some believe that the retail payments sector is so saturated in the US that the Asian market is the best bet for crypto penetration. However, Jason Choi, Head of…
Binance has added a fiat-to-crypto gateway for Nigeria’s Niara (NGN), the company said. Facilitated by payments network Flutterwave, the addition starts a new phase of Binance adding sub-Saharan fiat…